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Chapter 380 - 349: Group Up for Gaming

Chapter 380: Chapter 349: Group Up for Gaming

"Why are you here?"

Appearing at the doorway were Zhangsun Yao and the members of World Nuclear House she led.

Zhangsun Yao carried a gift bag in her hand, stepped into the Star-casting Anvil, and said cheerfully, "Here to deliver an opening gift. Our guild’s office is on this street, we’ll be neighbors from now on."

"Good afternoon, uh, evening."

The young Sword Master You Anjian, who had teamed up with Li Cheng previously and resembled Abing, greeted them, although he seemed a bit uneasy—

When they last met, Li Cheng was still a Lv5 newbie, fresh as Ash from Zhenxin Town.

This time, however, Li Cheng was already Lv20, with the means to acquire a large shop and have big guilds lining up at his door for collaboration.

You Anjian scratched his head, his eyes behind the sunglasses mixed with complex emotions, akin to the monk from Yu Huang Temple learning Zhu Yuanzhang had become emperor—brother, how did you develop so fast.

"What’s this all about? You’re being too polite."

Li Cheng took the gift bag and glanced inside; it was filled with World War II medals, Renaissance paintings, and religious holy relics, all sealed in plastic boxes.

The items might not be very expensive, but collecting them surely took some effort.

Li Cheng closed the bag, seeing Zhangsun Yao’s expression and knowing they had other matters, said, "Let’s discuss upstairs."

He led Zhangsun Yao and her group to the second floor; Prometheus’ male business representative couldn’t find an opportunity to speak, turning instead to watch his companion trying hard to chat with Gray Rain in the corner.

"You also play Honor of Kings? What a coincidence, I play too; shall we team up?"

The female business representative pressed the hidden earphone in her ear; Prometheus’ equipment manufacturing department was quite interested in Star-casting Anvil at the moment,

At that very moment, a logistics team hid in an armored command vehicle at the end of the street, and upon hearing the female business representative’s words, immediately had programmers remotely control a phone by computer, downloading and logging into a game account.

When the business representative took out the phone, the screen was already on the game interface, displaying a rank streak of ten plus consecutive wins.

"No."

Gray Rain lay on a lounge chair, glanced once then lowered her head again, "If you kill everyone, who am I supposed to kill."

? But I thought you haven’t killed a single person either.

The business representative looked at Gray Rain’s phone screen, showing a score of 0/9, wandering in the jungle, stealing economy in the middle lane, and shouting "Please stop me" as Dian Wei support, his eyelid twitching wildly.

Ring ring!

While playing, Gray Rain’s preset alarm rang, "Oh, it’s midnight, time to harvest."

She opened the nearby cabinet, took out over thirty phones and tablets, each device logged into different games like Golden Shovels, Dungeon, Peace Elite, Genshin Impact, Hokage...

Clicking into them one by one to claim the daily login rewards.

"Wait,"

In the armored command vehicle at the end of the street, a member of the Prometheus logistics team realized something and said puzzledly, "I remember Genshin and Honkai’s daily tasks refresh at four in the morning, Hokage at five, Dungeon at six..."

The programmer in the team responded first with a melancholic tone, "She set each phone and tablet to different countries and time zones, so she can claim all the daily rewards at once."

"..."

Silence fell in the vehicle, everyone’s mind synchronizing with one thought—what kind of genius is this.

————

On the second floor of Star-casting Anvil, Li Cheng rubbed his palms together, smiled and said, "The shop just opened, haven’t really set things up yet, make yourselves comfortable."

Uh...

World Nuclear House members, looked at the empty second-floor space, debated for a moment, then chose to stand.

"I have another purpose for coming here. According to your website, Star-casting Anvil also offers body modifications and medical services?"

Zhangsun Yao pursed her lips slightly and pointed to Tie Gu beside her, "Can you check him out?"

Tie Gu was a nearly two meters tall bronze-skinned strong man, nearing forty years of age, with a crew cut, seemingly a close combat Transcendent specialized in body enhancement.

"Hmm..."

Li Cheng adjusted the Information Integration Glasses·Revised on his nose and clearly saw clusters of shadows in Tie Gu’s body, "Something’s parasitic inside you?"

"Yes."

Tie Gu nodded, took a floor mirror out from his backpack and placed it in front of himself.

The mirror blurred for a moment, gradually revealing Tie Gu’s skin, muscles, and bones in transparency.

Within his chest, abdomen, limbs, and even brain, there were over ten baby-shaped ethereal Resentful Spirits.

The Resentful Spirits were about six centimeters tall, fully limbed with complete features, squinting and shrinking inside Tie Gu’s body.

"Our guild’s last script task was set in a world with a paranormal style akin to Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. We had to replace some demons and go to Wangsi City, attend the Ghost King’s banquet, and find a way to assassinate the Ghost King."

Zhangsun Yao spoke solemnly, "We did kill the Ghost King in the end, but Tie Gu consumed a mysterious Longevity Fruit at the banquet to maintain his cover, resulting in these... things parasitizing him."

Li Cheng examined the ghost babies, semi-ethereal and semi-real, feeding on Tie Gu’s spiritual energy in their sleep and then exhaling it. He casually suggested, "Have you tried Evil Science Alliance? They’re professionals in soul manipulation, right."

You Anjian responded, "We sought Evil Science Alliance, but according to them, these ghost babies are called Beixie, grown from underworld fruits on the Blood Rong Tree constantly watered with Yellow Springs Water before the abandoned infant tower.

Beixie has fused with Tie Gu’s spirit and flesh, continuously transforming his essence, making him lose all emotions and morals, turning into a Ghost King.

This transformation is considered a positive effect by the system, not a Curse, thus it cannot be lifted.

Evil Science Alliance can forcibly remove Beixie, but the consequence would be damaging Tie Gu’s soul.

We consulted over a dozen guilds and medical institutions, receiving nearly identical responses."

According to the killing field’s assessment standards, the Ghost King in Wangsi City has a minimum Lv30 level, most players would wish to replace Tie Gu, and be covered with ghost babies themselves.

But for Tie Gu, who still has parents, a spouse, and children in the real world, losing emotions and morals is absolutely unacceptable.

Li Cheng nodded, casually taking a sip of mineral water, "Got it, so you came to me finally."

"We were hoping to consult if you might have a solution."

Zhangsun Yao shook her head with a wry smile, "Gleaned from snippets on forums, you seem to have quite the... methods."

Just like the real world has OnlyFans and Bilibili charge videos, on the forum, players post text and GoPro videos for paid reading, describing script task experiences and insights, earning some subscription money from fans.

To avoid grudges and enmities, these players hide their teammates’ IDs, using replacements to refer to them.

But if the data volume is large enough, one can still recognize certain distinctive players from their mannerisms and styles.

"Sigh, it’s true; even a man as excellent as me, trying to hide, can’t avoid exposure."

Li Cheng suddenly smirked, "In the ’Data Post,’ my vertical entry into the scene, becoming an instant fan, this intelligence fits perfectly with the ’cool aloof type cerebral man,’ I suggest opening a fan club super topic: #High-quality human intellectual crush#."

?

Where did you learn this fangirl jargon, it’s way too intense.

Li Cheng seemed to guess the thoughts on the faces of World Nuclear House’s members, calmly said: "Probably stole it from Wei Wuxian + Gu Yiye + Shi Ying’s super topic."

???

Don’t drag us into your death wish.

With Zhangsun Yao and others showing exasperated expressions, Li Cheng pulled out an operating table from his three-dimensional warehouse, patted the bed, and casually said to Tie Gu, "Lie down, let’s see what I can do."

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